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| Tumblr Now Hosts Over 100 Million Blogs | | Tumblr has reached a big milestone: More than 100 million blogs and 44.6 billion blog posts have been created using the platform. The milestone, noticed by the folks from The Next Web, comes after a very successful 2012, in which Tumblr became on of the top 10 most visited sites in the world.
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| Flipboard 2.0: Now With Pinning, People Tagging, Search and Ecommerce | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| If there were two things missing from earlier versions of Flipboard, it was the ability to 1) bookmark content and 2) have conversations about it. Those are two features the Palo Alto, Calif., startup has included in Flipboard 2.0, launching on iPhone and iPad devices Tuesday. "It's the most ambitious thing the company has ever done," Eric Feng, Flipboard's CTO, said of the app update in an interview at Mashable's offices last week.
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| Viddy Co-Founder Says He Isn't Worried About Vine | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:36 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Ever since Twitter released Vine in late January, there has been plenty of speculation about whether it would hurt the many other social video sharing apps on the market. Perhaps no company seemed to be more directly in Vine's line of fire than Viddy.
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| Designer Creates a New Shade of Black for All | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:16 PM | Samantha Murphy |
| Coca-Cola has its shade of red and Tiffany's has its signature blue. But a design student wants to create a custom color everyone can use: the new black.
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| Facebook Testing Exchange Ads in the News Feed | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 2:02 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook is launching a "small alpha test" in which it will serve up Facebook Exchange ads in users' News Feeds, the company announced on Tuesday. Introduced last fall, Facebook Exchange [FBX] ads are based on users' browsing histories from around the web. For instance, if you do a lot of searches related to bicycles, Facebook might present an ad from a bicycle shop.
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| The Daily Show's Jason Jones Pans Cellphone Contracts in T-Mobile Ad | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:35 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| T-Mobile announced Tuesday that it is ditching the much-loathed two-year cellphone contract and letting customers pay through an installment plan instead. To help explain why this is better for customers, the wireless company has enlisted Daily Show correspondent Jason Jones.
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| Tiger Woods and Arnold Palmer Are an Unlikely Fighting Force in New Trailer | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 11:24 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| How do you make golf — and particularly old timers like Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino — exciting to today's young gamers? EA's solution was to cast Tiger Woods and Palmer as a couple of kick-ass fighters. The two square off against a group of nefarious dudes who are intent on stealing some trophies. Then Trevino parachutes in to save the day. The trailer, which promotes PGA Tour 14, comes at a good time — Woods just regained his No.
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| Cyprus Gets World's First Bitcoin ATM | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:53 AM | NowThisNews |
| Recently bailed-out Cyprus will be home to the world's first Bitcoin ATM machine. It will accept both Bitcoins for cash and cash for Bitcoins.
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| Report: Tablets to Outship Desktops This Year | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:11 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Tablet PCs will outship desktop PCs for the first time this year, catapulting us into a true "post-PC era," according to a report by researcher IDC. Shipments of tablet PCs will surpass desktops as the former category grows by 48.7% and the latter shrinks by 4.3%, IDC estimates. In 2014, tablets will also outship portable PCs.
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| Don't Call Africa's Tech Hub 'Silicon Savannah' | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 10:09 AM | Monty Munford |
| People have dubbed it "Nairobbery" for a reason. Crime is still a crushing reality in Kenya's capital of Nairobi. Yet life in the city is changing for its 3 million inhabitants. While the city is still dangerous for those who behave naively or who display conspicuous wealth by wearing expensive watches, crime rates are going down in Nairobi, and in the country as a whole.
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| Yahoo Buys Summly And Other News You Need to Know | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:53 AM | Stan Schroeder |
| Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. Yahoo bought the news reading and summarizing app, Summly, for $27 million in cash and $3 million in stock. Music streaming service Spotify is reportedly planning to enter a new field of media — on-demand video.
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| Google Introduces Tool to Calculate Mobile ROI | | Tuesday, March 26, 2013 9:01 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Google on Tuesday gave businesses a tool to measure their return on investment for mobile ad spending. The company's Full Value of Mobile Calculator is designed to let marketers keep tabs on sales leads in the form of calls, apps, in-store sales, mobile site visits and cross-device activity.
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